Trader Joe's

Mom, the little boys and I went to Trader Joe's today.  Mom and I have been meaning to go down there since sometime last year.  We've heard they have a great selection of gluten free foods, and that they aren't really that expensive.  Well - now that Dawn has been showing signs of being at least gluten sensitive if not gluten intolerant, I figured now was the time to go down and check it out. I'm going to be making the household 99% gluten free.  I don't want to make it 100% gluten free, and I'm not sure I'd be able to successfully be able to do it 100% all the time so why try to?

It was a long drive down there today, I'm not sure if it was just because of Gordon having a fussier day today or what the deal was, but it seemed to take forever to get there, and equally long on the way back.  The car accident on the way home didn't help either.  At one point of our trip home - there's a certain stretch that takes 15 minutes to get from one exit to another - it took 40 minutes.  It seemed longer then that when Gordon picked that time to start screaming bloody murder. Yesterday I ate some cheese by accident and I think that helped contribute to his fussiness. Going Casein Free/Dairy Free is a lot harder then I thought it would be, more so then going Gluten Free originally.  Not sure why. :(

In some ways it was worth the time and drive to go down there to check out Trader Joe's.  It reminded mom of an old fashion grocery store. It doesn't have any or very little processed foods. The fresh produce was very yummy looking and low prices.  A thing of bananas was $0.19 and organic ones was $0.29.  Normally in our local grocery store regular ones are $0.59.  Their Brown rice pasta was almost 1.00 cheaper, and there were a few other things too. The Almond milk that I've been drinking was also a 1.00 cheaper here. So I bought a couple.

I was a little disappointed though. I was expecting for them to have a larger selection of GF flours and baked goods. Even more GF crackers and breads. They had only 1 kind of each.  They had a HUGE print out list of GF foods, but they aren't in one section of the store, you have to look for a G symbol on the packaging.  So we'll see. Mom and I are talking about coming back down to check it out again...but without Cyril with.  lol.  It's not that he was naughty, but he was everywhere trying to "help" us grocery shop. Every time I turned around he was putting stuff in his cart, that he thought we'd want. It wasn't junk food, just gluten food. lol.

 It was good for us to go down, because we've always heard about how people just LOVE to go to Trader Joe's, but I just wasn't so sure about it, and if the benefits out way the drive down there.  The jury is still out on that as far as mom and I are concerned.  But it was interesting getting people's opinions for or against Trader Joe's on my facebook account.  So far it's all been positive.

God Bless~